Respected Comrade!

The CC places it within the competence of the Editorial Board of the Central Organ to issue instructions to comrade Bonch-Bruevich both regarding the text of the statement "from the editorial board" in his leaflet 258 and regarding the character of literary control; — both the one and the other, in our opinion, fall within the competence of the Central Organ, and we cannot undertake to issue the corresponding instructions to comrade Bonch-Bruevich.

Concerning the mediocrity of the articles and the inexperience of comrade Bonch-Bruevich, the editorial board should have informed not the CC, but comrade Bonch-Bruevich himself.

The CC will, of course, receive proofs and will endeavor, where possible, to offer its advice in especially important cases. We consider the question of the text of the statement not very important, but "special control" by the Central Organ over such a publication as Bonch-Bruevich's leaflet would, in our opinion, be useful.

We will discuss the question of the most convenient typeface.

We have authorized comrade Bonch-Bruevich to submit materials to the printing house himself, if the editorial board of the Central Organ encounters no obstacles to this.

Sent 19. XII. 03.

Written in Geneva (local)

First published in 1930

in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript